Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-03-11
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,hought and expression to our fair
,rltic IN advance, and if her reply had
manifested tenfold more ability in
hat line we should have snjoyed it the !;
more. Possibly we have each mis- !.
the other. Our first at
tempt was frank statement of what
we understood to be the essential fac
tors in what is generally termed spirit ]
ualism, but which we prefer to call by /
its more correct term spiritism; i a
professed communication with the !.
spirit world through the seance. We i
felt our difficulty in not being able to
fix upon some generally recognized
authority, but we supposed the Ban
ner of Light, the Religion philosophical
journal, and papers of that class, as
well as the professions of such men as
slade, the Davenport Bros, with Katie
King and others of that ilk, were a
correct brand. If that is not spirit
ualism, then there Is no ISSUE It is
the professional seance that We de.
nounced as a mischievous fraud and
which Mrs. Reame has failed to justify. |
With speculative opinion we have no
controversy, but with practical delu-
sion such as we have reason Co believe
of that seance, we can find nothing
but terms of seyerest condemnation
After allowing possible deductions
for the operations Of animal magne-
tism and mental force, it still remains
fact, that the professional medium
is a gigantic fraud. We repeat what
we said in our first, that the tricks
have been exposed time and again, and
to use Mrs. Reame's illustration, the
comet has been seen, and handled, and
lol such naturalization as it was, re-
sulting in frantic efforts to get free,
and haste to get away for scenes more
fair, and pastures green.
We criticised Mrs. Reame's use of
scripture because we discoverd in her
words au undertone of contempt for its
teachings. If we were mistaken, we
gladly stand corrected. We thought
her quotations were like Ingersolls
when defending the star-route thieves
against the government, and which met
) with such a we'll merited rehuke from
the Judge 1t is this stealing of the
livery of heaven toserve the devil in,
the Hail Master, and the kiss, that pro-
fesses attachment to the truth, and then
leaves it in the hands of its enemies
that we denounce as inconsistent, ano
insincere.
If our remarks did not apply, lei
I them go for what they are worth
With some of the sentiments in Mrs
Reame's reply, We heartily acquiesce
] We hope she will still continue to feee
the hungry. An instance of our boy
0 hood days often gives us great delight
g in the recollection of it. 4 schoolmate
had just lost father BY e,aJaw. II
our childish simlJ;~lUy. we sought te
dry he Gears by begging penny from
mother to buy him bun from th'
cookshop. 1t doubtless gave us NOR,
pleasure to give, than it did him to re
ceiye. Such is not only the teachini
g of Christ, but the very spirit and prae
J, ftice of his true followers. Doubles
s there is none too much of it, but th
g many hospitals and charitable institu
d tions built and sustained at immense
/ expense, by the voluntary contribu
q tions Of christian people, are eloquen
II testimonies to the power of divin
/ truth. When Charles Bradlaugh tn
Ingersoll of England was in America
n he was taken sick stranger in
$ strange land He did not go to hos
3 pital for infde,s, simply because ther
were none. He was ministered to b,
$ christian hands and in christian in
Il stitutioa supported by christian liber
{ ality. In the spirit Of Him, who criee
i with his expiring breath, "Father, for
I give them for they know not what the,
g do" These institutions of mercy ad
:, nit on equal terms the sick and dis
T tressed Of all nasionalities. creed, o.
h no creed, even those who have dom
e their utmost to destroy the principle
= that gave them birth.
/ If spiritualism, or the boasted relig
ion of humanity, pretends to exalt rea
$ son by denying the faith, has done a
e much, we should be glad 70 know
S where it is.
d Mrs. Reame misrepresents us in th
e appeal to reason and experience. w
! referred to the common objection Il
, the miracles of scripture. What ",
do say is that nature has her mysterie
{! and the devout student of both natur'
{ and revelation finds that after all th'
9 discoveries of the nineteenth century
$ there is much that is beyond the limi
e of finite intelligence. He stands witt
n uncovered head in the temple of God
and confesses himself a child. It i
the superficial observer that boasts o
the unalterable laws of nature, ant
prates loudly about science and reason
as if he had monopoly of both. Lik'
the psrrot he chatters his little refrain